{"id":109993,"date":"2020-12-23T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109993"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:56:06","slug":"maldives-to-operate-scheduled-flights-to-mria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/23\/maldives-to-operate-scheduled-flights-to-mria\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives to operate scheduled flights to MRIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Director of Operations of the Airport and Aviation Services of Sri Lanka, Shehan Sumanasekara stated that the national carrier of Maldives will commence scheduled flights to Sri Lanka from today (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202012\/1608732839_842180_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Maldives+to+operate+scheduled+flights+to+MRIA\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, scheduled flights operated by\u00a0Air Maldives will fly into Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sumanasekara, the project is part of the project to develop MRIA under \u2018an exotic tourism destination\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking further he added that they are in the process of lining up other airlines to commence scheduled flights in the same manner in the near future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Director of Operations of the Airport and Aviation Services of Sri Lanka, Shehan Sumanasekara stated that the national carrier of Maldives will commence scheduled flights to Sri Lanka from today (23). Accordingly, scheduled flights operated by\u00a0Air Maldives will fly into Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA). According to Sumanasekara, the project is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}